Following the AT&T DNS poisoning late last month, one of China's largest ISPs, China Netcom, has suffered a similar setback. In the past, Chinese companies have had little trouble with information security as their domestic hackers primarily target foreign servers. This is starting to change, however, and China is going to have a huge problem trying to both maintain security and continue the fast pace of growth.
From ZDNet Blogs:
From ZDNet Blogs:
The DNS server of one of China's largest ISPs has been poisoned to redirect typos to a malicious site rigged with drive-by exploits.
According to a warning from Websense Security Labs, the DNS poisoning attacks are affecting customers of China Netcom (CNC) and are using a malicious iFrame to launch exploits for known vulnerabilities in RealNetworks' RealPlayer, Adobe Flash Player and Microsoft Snapshot Viewer. [From ZDNet: Websense reports China Netcom DNS cache poisoning]
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